The objectives of this study were to confirm the necessity of classifying rural areas into several zone, which is being required to carry out various regional development projects in rural areas sponsored by government effectively, make the standard for the classification. To summarize the results obtained from this study are as follows : By reviewing previous studies, human resource, natural resource, unnatural resource were selected as the parameters for the classification, and each parameter consisted of four sub-parameters. According to evaluation on the amount of resources in five gun(county), Hadong, Namhae, and Hapcheon had high amount of resources, while Sancheong and Hamyang had low. Based on the evaluation on the resource amount, the region of eup and myeon in the five gun were classified into five type(A, B, C, D, E). From the classification result, 6 eup and myeon were classified into A type, 13 eup and myeon into B type, 14 eup and myeon into C type, 18 eup and myeon into D type, 11 eup and myeon into E type. This showed that the five belts were distributed evenly in the five gun. The regions of eup and key myeon in each gun were classified into A type(Urbanization). The evaluation on the resource amount of the region that held beautiful view of nature and great tourist attractions was high although the region was close to E type(Mountains) in geographical feature. The regional characteristic of each eup or myeon was different although eup and myeon that were located in the same gun or adjacent each other. Therefore, it is thought that when the project for development of rural areas is planned, the regional characteristic of each eup and myeon should be considered to utilize the potential of each region fully. In summary, it is believed that to get productive results from the development project in rural areas, strategies should be different based on the regional characteristic of each zone.